Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-01

The ST. Louis Globe Democrat, refer
ring to contract recently made be-
tween London mining company and
an American manufacturing firm says
it is one of the most remarkable on
record. Tho company proposes to WORK
extensive gold LANDS in Africa, and
needing large lot of machinery III
CURED IN all the large cities of Europe
and America, and tinally placed its Or
der with an American firm. There are
to DC six slamp-mllls complete.
A California horse-thief asked q
rough-looking man in Sacramento
where he could find IL good criminal
| LAWYER. The man showed him Il law
ver's office. and stood by while he con-
| fessed to have stolen horse in San
JOAQUIN county. The lawyer said the
case looked bad. Then | guess I'll
| skip out" said the thief. Not to-day, "
SAID the rough-looking man, who was II
special policeman, and who promptly
locked up the careless criminal.
Col. Jake Child, the poetic Missourian
who is representing this government in
a ministerial capacity at the court OF
the king of Siam, writes letter to his
home paper in old Missouri, which
STARTS OH III the 1ollowlng surain: Again
| watt you miSsive over the sun-kissed
seas, from far Orient, land of legends, ="
etc. 1t is apparent. says the New York
World, that Col. Jake's florescent style
of composition has not been dulled by
his brief residence among the prosaic
Slamese.
An eastern merchant says the amount
of goods stolen from large dry goods
houses during year is insignificant
Professional shoplifters, he says, are
scarce, and they do not last long, for
their actions while making raid ex-
pose them to the clerks. 1t is an easy
thing to detect thieves. Shoplifters are
always women; men are so out of place
in dry goods store. Women are not
likely to become skillful thieves, and il
they do their greed generally leads
them to try to carry away too many
things.
Recently Oscar Kidd, of Port Jervis,
N, Y, dreamed that watch, wrapped
in cotton in tin box, was secreted in g
cellar of certain honse IN that town.
The owner of the house laughed a
Oscar, who wanted to look for the
watch, but finally went down to the
cellar with him, and sure enough Kidc
found the watch just as he had dream
ed. Then the owner of the houst
claimed the watch because it had beer
found ON his premises, and he kept it
too. .
A strange variety of taste, says ;
London magazine, has prevailed il
various countries in regard to mush
rooms In Russia the peasants are neve
without them. They are hung up tt
drv in the roofs of the cottages, like GA
| cakes in Lancashire, and form grea,
y esteemed relish to all sorts of dishes
, In some parts of Germany also, they ar
7 largely preserved in brine for cookin!
J purposes, but in England it is onl'
lately that they have come at all int
general use.
j So many Salt Lake Mormons ar
$ leaving town that the gentiles are max
: ing fun of their advertisements G
/. s.closing out sales" An eating hous
has this legend posted in the doorway
Q ''Will leave Jerusalem for Woods x fo
e two days. Wiener wurst and saue
4 kraut will be closed out below cost.
Even the bootblacks have caught til
infection, and one advertises: t'Goin
i to the Palestine Underground for
! month; a regular Joseph Smith Celestia
1 shine below cost!''7 ol u. .t
| According to Constantinople col
t respondent the sultan of Turkey is i
fearful dread of assassination. Th
Russian proclivities of the sultan hay
brought down on his head the wrath {
} the high government and palace o
!. ficials. Bairam Aga, the chief eunuct
was requested recently to point out t
: his majesty that Turkey was in the wa
: of becoming second Persia, and h
:: gently reminded his majesty of tn
i deposition" Of the late Abdul Aziz b.
!, cause of his leaning toward Russia
i ideas. Z ssaa 'e@
!, Tod;as will find relief from their &C